\documentclass[]{article}
\setlength{\pdfpagewidth}{8.5in} \setlength{\pdfpageheight}{11in}
\begin{document}
\begin{tabular}{lccc} \hline
 & (1) & (2) & (3) \\
VARIABLES & mean & sd & N \\ \hline
 &  &  &  \\
Arms technology lag & 16.14 & 21.96 & 2,195 \\
Small arms lag & 8.995 & 27.99 & 2,378 \\
Arms Technology Index (formative) & 11.78 & 4.552 & 2,195 \\
Small arms & 8.491 & 0.957 & 2,152 \\
Arms Technology Index (IRT) & 0.612 & 0.637 & 2,232 \\
Distance weighted arms technology adoption (instrument) & 16.62 & 10.85 & 2,231 \\
Lag GDP per capita (log) & 56.15 & 45.30 & 2,378 \\
GDP per capita (log) & 8.168 & 1.084 & 2,232 \\
Electoral democracy index & 37.12 & 27.49 & 2,371 \\
Democracy dummy (Boix et al) & 0.371 & 0.483 & 2,377 \\
Public sector corruption index & 45.04 & 30.35 & 2,364 \\
Political corruption index & 48.07 & 29.87 & 2,362 \\
Executive corruption index & 46.85 & 31.45 & 2,373 \\
Rigorous and impartial public administration & 16.43 & 155.4 & 2,366 \\
Regime resistance (Banks) & 1.338 & 3.373 & 2,212 \\
CSO repression & 25.64 & 156.4 & 2,377 \\
Freedom from political killings & 46.69 & 168.8 & 2,377 \\
Log military personnel (CoW) & 3.719 & 1.570 & 2,261 \\
Share democracy in neighbor countries & 0.317 & 0.364 & 2,232 \\
Share democracy in neighbors' neighbors & 0.322 & 0.306 & 2,232 \\
War in neighboring countries & 0.0986 & 0.298 & 2,232 \\
War in neighbors' neighbors & 0.149 & 0.356 & 2,232 \\
Civil war in neighboring countries & 0.243 & 0.429 & 2,232 \\
Civil war in neighbors' neighbors & 0.372 & 0.484 & 2,232 \\
Distance-weighted polyarchy & 0.375 & 0.175 & 2,232 \\
Distance-weighted war & 0.0436 & 0.0844 & 2,232 \\
Distance-weighted civil war & 0.0550 & 0.0401 & 2,232 \\
Distance-weighted GDP pc (log) & 13.25 & 0.803 & 2,232 \\
War in last three years & 0.0645 & 0.246 & 2,293 \\
Civil war in last three years & 0.108 & 0.311 & 2,378 \\
US ally & 0.275 & 0.447 & 2,378 \\
USSR ally & 0.0673 & 0.251 & 2,378 \\
Trade (log) & 7.809 & 2.472 & 2,197 \\
Foreign aid (log) & 9.652 & 9.264 & 2,378 \\
Log military expenditure (CoW) & 11.72 & 2.663 & 2,243 \\
 &  &  &  \\ \hline
\end{tabular}
\end{document}
